With all the saber-rattling going on in the world today, many of the young men I know are beginning to wonder. “Are we going to war? Will I be called up?”  The very concept of a military draft is new to them.  I’ve lived through several wars—World War II, the Korean conflict, and Vietnam.  I […]

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Scripture: “Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many”  (Hebrews 12:15 NLT). As a kid growing up in the Oklahoma Panhandle, I became very familiar with the dry, thorny tumbleweeds that blocked fences, roads, and empty buildings. The “Russian thistle,”  a green, thirsty bush, absorbs many liters of […]

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